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Assembly Select Committee on Sea Level Rise Holds First Meeting in Five Years

December 5, 2019 3:03 pm

The State Assembly’s Select Committee on Sea Level Rise and the California Economy held their first meeting since 2014 in Encinitas on Tuesday. In front of the public, Assemblymembers and other officials discussed environmental changes, economical costs, and other factors...

Closure of California Airports Leading to Increased Jet Traffic, Noise Pollution Issues at Others

December 5, 2019 7:04 amDecember 5, 2019 12:47 pm

At a Burbank and Van Nuys Airport Joint Task Force meeting held Wednesday in Burbank, the FAA, local governments, and angered local citizens held a largely wild meeting, primarily about the growing noise and jet traffic of local airports. Anger...

Congressman Duncan Hunter Changes Plea to Guilty Over Campaign Fund Misuse

December 3, 2019 3:33 pmDecember 4, 2019 1:12 pm

The campaign finance scandal trial of Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican serving the 50th Congressional district in San Diego, took an unusual turn Monday as he changed his plea to guilty. 60 criminal counts and plane tickets for a...

Relations Between The Governors Office and Trade Unions Worsens

December 3, 2019 9:06 amDecember 11, 2019 9:14 am

After almost a year of a growing rift between California labor unions and the Governor’s office, new warnings of an economic downturn and further cost-cutting in the state budget are bringing the situation to a head. From support to discontent...

Local Sacramento Politicians Propose 40-Year Climate Change Sales Tax

December 2, 2019 1:51 pm

‘Only talking about roads is a bygone era and we have to evolve beyond that.’ A group of city and county politicians is working on a November 2020 ballot measure to increase the local sales tax another half cent,...

PG&E Fails Attempt at Avoiding Billions of Dollars in Insurance Liabilities

November 30, 2019 2:05 amDecember 1, 2019 10:09 am

PG&E will be held accountable for the $11 billion settlement they had agreed to with insurance companies ruled a bankruptcy judge Wednesday. Inverse Condemnation U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Dennis Montali held up the legal principle of ‘inverse condemnation’, which holds...

Lawsuit at Cal State Fullerton Leads to Calls for Strengthening Hazing Laws

November 29, 2019 8:10 pm

The parents of Bea Castro, a 19-year-old Cal State, Fulletron student who died from acute ethanol intoxication in March of 2018 during a hazing incident, are suing both the University and the Chi Sigma Phi sorority. The charges in the...